Trolling-spoon



(No Model.)

H. LOPTIB.

TROLLING SPOON.

No. 481,652. Patented Aug. 30, 1892.l

VVITN ESSES:

ATTORN EVS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY LOFTIE, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

TROLLlNG-SPOON.

y SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,652, dated August 30, 1892.

Application filed December 12,1891. Serial No. 414,821. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern..-

Be it known that I, HENRY LOFTIE, of Syracuse,in the county of Onondaga,in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Trolling-Spoons, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the attachment of the trolling-spoon to the stem or shaft of the fishing-tackle.

The object of the invention is to simplify vsaid attachment and facilitate the operation of connecting and disconnecting the spoon to and from the tackle, and thus permit spoons of dierent forms or colors to be used interchangeably with one and the same tackle; and the object of the invention, furthermore, is to render the trolling-spoon reversible in its connection to the tackle and to that end the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figures l and 2 are respectively front and edge views of a trolling-spoon connected to the stern or shaft of the fishing-tackle by my improved attaching devices, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of said devices.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents the usual stem or shaft of the fishing-tackle, and s denotes the trollingspoon, which latter I make reversible in its attachment to the fishing-tackle or its shaft o. by providing each end of said spoon with an eye c by which to connect it to the shaft or stem a of the trolling-spoon.

This spoon I hang on a spring-clip swiveled on the shaft a, so as to allow the spoon to freely spin about the shaft in the usual manner.

To facilitate the attachment and detachment of the spoon to and from the springclip when desired, and to also guard against the liability of the spring-clip becoming bound on the shaft, I affix said spring-clip to a sleeve c, which loosely embraces the shaft a, and is thus revoluble thereon. From one end of this sleeve, preferably the lower end thereof,

projects laterally a loop b, which terminates with a tongue b', extending along the side of the ferrule and free therefrom. Said loop, with its tongue, constitutes the aforesaid spring-clip, to which the spoon s is connected by passing the tongue b through the eye ot' the spoon and allowing the latter to hang in the loop b. A ferrule d is hung loosely on the shaft a and adapted to be slipped over the end of sleeve c, and by pressing the free end of the tongue b against the side of the sleeve said ferrule is also passed over said end of the tongue, and thereby retains the same in said compressed position, and thus locks the spring-clip so as to confine the spoon thereon. By slipping the ferrule d off from the end of the sleeve c and tongue b the spoon s can be readily withdrawn from the ring b and out from under the tongue b', and, if desired, said spoon may be reversed end for end or another spoon of different shape or color can be readily attached to the aforesaid spring-clip inthe manner before described.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with the shaft d, of a spring-clip mounted revolnbly ou said shaft and terminating with a tongue extending lengthwise of the shaft and free therefrom, the spoon hung on said clip, and a ferrule on the shaft, passing over the free end of the aforesaid tongue and confining the spoon on the clip, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the shaft ot, of the sleeve c, mounted revolubly on said shaft, the loop b, projecting laterally from the lower end of said sleeve and terminating with the upwardly-extending tongue b', standing free from the sleeve, the spoon provided with an eye adapted to slip over the said tongue and into the loop, and the ferrule d, removably embracing the ends of the sleeve and tongue, substantially as described and shown.

In testi monywhereof I have hereunto signed my name this Llth day of December, 1891.

HENRY LOFTIE. [L s] Witnesses:

H. M. SEAMANS, J. J. LAAss. 

